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Rescan SCSI Bus

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Fri, 10/10/2014 - 11:36 by jblocker

I can honestly never remember the correct files for doing a rescan of a SCSI bus so I figured I'd post this here. This isn't rocket science, but is here for quick reference. This is confirmed to work on RHEL 5/6, CentOS 5/6 and OEL 5/6:

ADD NEW SCSI DEVICE (i.e. new scsi disk)

# for f in /sys/class/scsi_host/host*; do echo "- - -" > $f/scan; done

DETECT CHANGES IN EXISTING SCSI DISK (i.e. growing a hard disk in VMWare)

# for f in /sys/block/sd*; do echo 1 > $f/device/rescan; done

SAFELY DELETE BLOCK DEVICE FROM SYSTEM

# echo 1 > /sys/block/DEVICE-NAME-HERE/device/delete

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